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  • thanks peter i love to here these stories :)

  • The ending took me completely by suprise. I never saw that coming. I have no choice but to watch the next video now, hope it's just as good as this one. =)

  • this is my favorite clip, i love them all but this is my favorite one! thank you so much for these wonderful stories, we need more people with experience and stories like you on here!

  • So I sit and I listen, amazed as always, and than WHAM! - the very last seconds contain the cliffhanger of all cliffhangers :-)))!

  • Wonderful video! =)

  • That was one of the best endings ever....Next time I might talk about sex so pleaase come back... you couldnt have picked a better comment to end with.... BTW love you vids...just started watching them...

  • You were a little scallywag:)) LOL. only joking. Just like all little boys. I wish you didn't have time restrictions. Having to end it. Always want to hear more.

  • Have some respect. This gentleman (a geezer, as you call him) has walked many miles, lived in an era when things were not as easy as today. Gone through the depression, war etc, hardships. If you cannot respect him and other elderly people then stay away from them, and stop hurting them with these kind of comments. Have a heart, you can't be all that bad?

  • Peter, it is a pleasure listening to your stories...thank you for sharing them with us. It brings a warmth to the heart!

  • As many I enjoy your videos and appreciate your effort..

  • why do you keep on watching his videos? you don't have to. peter doesnt claim he is revealing the ultimate meaning of life, or wants to guide others to find the secret of life. he is our friend and chats with us, just as you do with your own frends. we enjoy his company, and he enjoys ours.

  • Why watch them then?

  • Do you find pleasure in posting these kinds of comments? Each to their own. We happen to consider Peter a online friend. Its very possible to get to know and enjoy someones chats. I for one enjoy listening to our older people. Remember we all grow old, including you.

  • Thank you very much. I love your stories. Listening to your stories is like getting into exciting adventures.

  • I have seen the documentaries called 1900 House and 1940 House. The house you described was very much like the 1900 house. I was able to imagine your life very well.

    Maybe the newspaper was to save money. Or maybe your father wanted to use butcher paper because he had plenty (no cost) and she found the newspaper a better low-cost option.

    On the 1940s House the toilet paper didn't look soft at all. People must have crumpled them up good before using them, but it'd still be uncomfortable.

  • Enjoying your stories,.I asked my grandmother how it felt to be old and she told me there is an 18year old in here...I have never forgotten that. I can see the 18year old in you.

  • Hello Peter, im a youngster of 14 and i like watching ur stories, great job ! ;)

  • Like a couple of posts before me, I'm catching up and reading you in sequence. Can't wait for the next one, in fact don't have to wait, straight on I go.

  • I'm new to Peter's story's,I started at the first and am working my way thru,I don't want to jump ahead. I would like to add that the news paper cliping on the out house door may have been from the SUN NEWS PAPER! what a greate use for it!!

  • really enjoying your stories, thanks so much! Its hard to fathom the disrespectful comments posted. I just don't get it. The day is going to come when there won't be anyone to tell us and our children stories first hand as you do. Just wanted you to know there's one more person out here that appreciates you.

  • a masterful storyteller - "next time i might talk about sex" - spoken in the final 5 seconds b4 sign-off - that's it, keep 'em comin' back for more!

  • Terraced tourist terrorist.

  • Unexploded bomb in the neighboring playground!!  Yikes!! Thanks and keep on keeping on!!!! Bound to travel just a little more ground!!!

  • A great idea! Tell it all. We'll keep listening.

  • So very interesting, as always. And I always enjoy them more when you smile and chuckle a bit, as you did here! I'll be sure to watch next time. I've always wanted to know about sex.

  • Amen brother may the good LORD BE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, GREAT INSPIRING VIDEOS ADAM kashif

  • The fluffy of comments has subsided 1 week now.

    As always, tune in next time, for sex chat ala

    1940's gorgeous women in wartime England.

  • old guy on you tube real old lookin (no offense)

  • As always, very interesting Peter.

  • newspapers-tomorows bog roll! How fitting! ;) I think it was always a case of why waste money when you have all that newspaper to get rid of? My mum tells me that they used newspaper in her house too, and my nan still had an outside loo when I was a child-I remember the spiders! They had a bathroom too by then, but the outhouse was good for emergencies!

    sex next eh? Scary!;)

  • hi peter so your dad was a butcher was he like jack jones the butcher out of dads army only jokeing all the best dixon

  • interesting update.

  • and we should care...why?

  • whoops! this is a wrong reply to a wring coment! Now that I've made a peoper ass out of myself, I feel better. I'm an idiot - Geriatric1927 you rock.

  • This should be shown in every WWII history class. brilliant.

  • Oral history is very important and adds to the younger generations understanding of the war years so you should be thanked for relating your memories and people like aidan40 are just ignorant.Great to see your videos back.Keep up the good work.

  • wow i did not see that firsat post up there,

    is someone tieing you down to watch.if not you put remarks up like that makes you in deed very very stupied.

  • a story 4 u.mom was 9 and her and her sister all lived on a farm, well they went in cellar.were apples were. well long story short they ended up drunk,lololol

  • i think your wounderfull. you have helped my mined rember stories from my family who are all gone now. mom pass in 78, and born in 1919. she had be very very late in life ,,i allways wished i wrote the stories down,it nice to here yours peace from las vegas

  • My grandad told me about the street lights. He said that they were no street lights and the curtains were all black so when the Germans flew over they would see nothing at all below them.

  • wow i love you.. please can i adopt you as my grandad?? it is so strange to find someone of you're era who knows how to use a computer.. (i don't mean offence) please please please let me adopt you.. i love you're stories :) grandad :)

  • fuck off adian40 if you think you're so smart stop putting shitty comments and watch other videos.

  • How many of you know this old guy personally? its like he is brain washing everyone into thinking his stories are legit, and for all we know, this man can be a petafile waiting to strike like a lepard and take your dignity with him.

  • continuence:

    I dont personally like these vids, only because they are pointless, and well, it only seems that this old man is lonely and feels like a teen with nothing better to do than post his "real" life stories from eons ago. so, for the rest of you youtuber's, im telling it all my damn self with get a fucking life.

  • Be so kind to tell us about how you got your lunch money stollen today. You don't have the right to say what EVERYBODY thinks of his stories. If you don't like him you shut the fuck up, he doesn't have to.

  • go f**k yourself aidan40 you loser!

  • go watch video's of car crashes Aidan40 this clearly takes more than your 15 sec attention span.

  • very interesting

  • this is interesting. even though war makes me miserable this is very interesting.

  • the best of youtube - by far.

    Wonderful stuff, Peter, keep the recollections coming.

  • Probably no one will answer my query but why Norfolk is north while Norfolk family lived in Arundel? By the way Norfolk in the 16th century was a cunning bastard.

  • i'm still loving every blog you make peter..

  • Hello, Peter--

    Would you mind if I wrote a paper about your experiences (based on your videos) for my Western Civilization clas? My professor has not yet had the chance to see any of your videos-- she teaches at least 4 classes and is *extremely* busy this semester, but I thought it would make a nice change from the usual book report.

    I didn't want to undertake this project, however, without asking your permission first. I would not want to be another Sutherland. :)

  • Great stories, cheers from Washington state.

  • To all those watching and interested...personal and oral histories are a big piece of the fabric of what we "know" now. Many might not want to video, but check this out memoryarchive org anyone can post...your life, how you were affected by a momentous occasion (9/11 seems popular)..or maybe your old, great uncle might tell you a story you can post. go peter.

  • Oops. I meant Raymond.

  • Thank you Peter.I'm new to you. Your reply to the news story was on Utube main page. I watched it,then your next post, "the early war". After that,I remembered the article said you never said where you from. So your theme of nothing much changed with war struck me wrong. Thanks for Norwich (go canaries).I know the 1st yr Brits did "as we were chaps". I await next post, Norfolf was vital. You and Henrik can kill me if you want. I had to ask.

  • awesome Peter. Its fascinating. I love the fact that you have embraced this technology and are wanting to preserve the voices of the generations that came before us young folk. Your videos are entertaining and interesting.

  • Have you "read" the Raymong Griggs picture book "Ethel and Ernest"? It reminds me of your war stories.

    Much admiration from Texas.

  • we love you peter! your stories are wonderful.

  • Well done, my friend!

  • Peter: My mother recalled her teenage years when German submarines would surface off Avalon Beach, New Jersey, flying the red German Navy ensign "reminding us they were there to get our ships leaving Brooklyn for Europe." Later in the war, German submariners came ashore and stole oil and resources from local gas stations, signaling to war weary Americans that Germany was in trouble and resorting to common robbery of gas stations for resources!

    Chris in NC wine country.

  • my grandma always told me that standing on the coastal defences that she could hear the guns firing all the way from france!

    Thanx for giving a voice to the older generation!

  • he he he - Squares of cut up newspaper at the WC- per my grandmother (almost the same age) she says that it's because toilet paper was very expensive in those times and most people couldn't afford it. Plus, it was simply unprinted "newspaper" - so most people chose to make their own.... in her fam, they preferred the sears catalog. (giggles) Funny what one remembers.

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  • Dear Peter-another great one-missing you after 3 days like an old friend...hope you are enjoying your time w/your son. Liz in oc

  • I love your videos!

  • Great work and by the way the guardian newspaper sucks.

  • Good story, can't wait for more!!!

  • listening to your stories has become a habit at work (hahahaha...i know, i'm bad... i should be working... but the stories are too good!)

  • Your foster son comes on Sep. 6th, 2006. Tell him hello and we'll just have to wait until you finish your fatherly duties with him.

    "cat"

  • you are amazing sir.

  • You better....

  • I just love to listen to your video's, Peter. Great stories, some history, some humor....simply wonderful. Keep on telling us, PLEASE!

  • I think that Peter rulez! I will come back tomorrow to listen some more stories. However the foster son is coming so I don't know if Peter will be available for another chat.

  • As always, bravo Peter. Can't wait for the next one. If I had the time I would listen to you all day. Too bad you have to cut your stories so short. Until your next post, Farewell my friend!!!!

  • Your an insight in to what my mum went though. she 76. She lived in the Leicester.

    .

  • "bluebrick (8 months ago) marked as spam

    Your an insight in to what my mum went though. she 76. She lived in the Leicester."

    Haven't you ever spoken to your Mum then?

  • Lmao "next time i might talk about sex" Another great Telling it all, i look forward to the next one.

  • Just like ddann81 above. "Next time I might talk about..." and I just gave an involuntary snort of amusement.

    Well done, Peter.

  • Another big thank you from Germanysl for this new video full of interesting details, told in your useful very humourous (? I have to apologize for my bad English...) way !!!As always, I am looking forward to the next one! Lots of love, dear Peter, take care!!

  • You might? You must

  • Thank you for this video. I like to hear you "telling it all".

    A big thank you from Germany.

  • Peter you shouldn't have to have a timeframe to rush your stories. CAN THIS GUY GET A DIRECTORS ACCOUNT FINALLY?

  • tie up a battleship. muahaaha

    you're the best peter!

    I like your stories very much!

  • lol, "next time i might talk about..." that is so funny from a 79 year old man!

    I just love to listen to you peter!

  • Hello - I know you are bombarded with requests to correspond - - My mother was born in 1936 and I have heard many stories of a "german" in America in WWII. I would love to correspond with you. My mother is alive and well today. We will celebrate her 70th birthdy on 9/16 of 2006. I've never had grandparents and it would be wonderful to correspond with you to hear the "other side" of the "pond"

    god bless

  • Peter, Ive been following your vids since your first. and I am your biggest fan in New Orleans. I wish I had more to say and a way to be as elloquent as you, but just know that i eagerly await each new vid you produce and that you are very appreciated!

  • Peter, Perhaps your parents knew that was the best use for newspaper. They were visionaries!

  • the guardian wrote about you bro

  • Another great story. As always, thank you, sir.

  • Oh shoot he said he "MIGHT" talk about it... That means that he may not.

  • One of your best yet.

  • My grandparents had an outdoor privy right up into the 1960's. They supplied Sear's and Robuck and dried corn cobs... which sound's awful, but they are soft as velvet ... the one's that they used anyway. This was in Virginia. I used it a few times, with some fear, mostly of spiders and wasps, not because of the toilet paper or lack there of. I love you stories, can't wait to hear the S E X story.

  • Peter talking about sex..can't wait XD

  • i simply cannot load this video. I have been trying for days.

  • My Grandma ALWAYS cut up newspapers for the outside lavvie even when Andrex was cheap! :o/

  • ROFL about toilet paper. I will appreciate mine more now!  And unsolved mysteries like that are just hilarious.

  • why did you write fuck off valyuntbe?

  • "Oh, Dear! 9:44!" hahah...I thought that was funny.

  • I really like this video and I hope you do more about old war time stories. In my opinion history is one of the greatest things to learn about next to science. Keep on the good work and please continue posting videos!

  • Your stories bring to mind memories of my grandparents who also lived in a "two up-two down" with an outside toilet next to the coal bunker. They used old newspapers for toilet paper, mostly the Liverpool Echo.My grandmother had a diplay cabinet in her front room with various ornaments in it. Nothing unusual in that you may think, but she also had a variety of brass bomb fragments including several nose pieces delivered personally by the Luftwafer!

  • Highly polished and prestine I might add!! A mark of defiance perhaps?

  • This house is still standing and being lived in to this day!!

  • Peter, I love your stories. Those who say they are to long and boring, In my opinion, possibly just have short attention spans and are use to 60 second commercials. Your doing an awesome job. I love the details and find them most intresting.

  • Hello again Pete - always nice to hear your stories! Hope all is well in your part of the world. Later -

  • Boring! Boring!

  • WOW! What a great teaser at the end, saying you're going to talk about sex in your next video! Maybe even that idiot from The Guardian will watch...lol.

    But seriously, I loved hearing your descriptions of your childhood home. It's a view of life most of us have never known. Thanks and much love from here in Texas.

  • "next time i might talk about sex"

    great advertising for your next one ;D

  • Many thanks again Peter :)

  • Thank you for doing this Peter. Greetings from Germany. Ilonka.

  • Peter, with all your remembrances about the daily life of the British during the War, it made me think of one of my favorite films that aptly pictures the kind of house you grew up in. If you never saw it, the 1979 American film, "Yanks" with an all-star cast including Vanessa Redgrave and Rachel Roberts is excellent. Can't help but think of you in that film's setting when you talk about your youth...

    Thom, MusicManInSC

  • Thank you for doing this Peter. Great pleaser listening to you.

  • Already looked into a mirror?

  • Hmmm... Nice story to share. Pity about the people comment stupid, off-topic and irrelevant things like "bake your brain some more in pot", some people are prescribed stuff like this to ease quite alot of pain, like my grandad.

  • Always a pleasure, thanks for new vid, take it easy.

  • great story. i've got alot of old old photos of my grandfather overseas during the 2nd world war and in korea. maybe i will make a slideshow of those photos. take care

  • the perfect accompaniment to a tea break. Nice one sir!

  • Hi, Peter! Just curious: do you spend story-telling time with ur great/grandchildren as you do with us here in YouTube? I can just imagine you as the ideal grandparent who has kids sitting on his lap and around him on the floor, earnestly waiting for the next story grandpa would tell them, enriching their minds with imagination, travelling time back to grandpa's past... anyway, keep up coming, Peter! Thanks!

  • What a cliff-hanger ending!

  • that movie was cool dude make another one

  • are all u guys on pot cuz i dun kno wuts so good bout dis guy like how does he get 1000's of viewers hes just talking for 10 boring minutes about his life

  • If u don't appreciate what he's sharing, then get the hell out! Why do u need to diss him like this? Go find urself something better to do - like bake ur brain some more in pot.

  • This man is YouTube's grandad.

  • w00t i cant wait to hear an old man talking about sex -_-

  • Strips of newspaper for toilet paper, etc...all exactly as my dad describes to me about living in the town of Murton in the 20's.

  • Do you know anything about Glenn Miller missing in action?

  • Thanks for sharing

  • U ROCK OLD DUDE!!!

  • Peter, excellent as usual.

    YOU YOU YOUTUBE now has a THEME SONG:

    billybobjoe57

  • very intresting i need more people 2 check out my crazy stunts updated daily

  • Con man! I know his grandchild sets it all up for him and all he does is speak, he cant even use a mouse!

  • So what? It's what he says that's the important bit.

  • checkout the monty python yorkshireman scetch on my profile please its this guy rolled into four

  • Peter,

    When My husband and I were first togeather in 1992 we rented a one-bed flat in Swindon and the only heat source was a coal fire in the front room,

    even young love didn't keep us warm at night we needed thick PJ's on. the bathroom was like a fridge as it was on an outside wall I took a lot of courage just to get washed in the morning!

  • ha ha its like that monty python scetch about yorkshire

  • lolllll awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. old ppl know how to use comps :D

  • shut the fuck up 'chris' no one cares about your crap videos, and stop advertising them. retard

  • find some thing to do with your life "coolbhav "

    no one want's your rude comments no one makes you come to his site

  • Thats whats up I have some better war stories come check it

  • Very informative and interesting. I really wish this technology was available 20 or 30 years ago, imagine the stories we'd have access to.

  • crap

  • wow that was the most exciting video i ever watched lol lol lol

  • ze next video vill be zeeexxyyyyyy, you remind me of my grandpa : )

  • are you a wannabe radio dude who never made it?

  • I have a bad feeling about this. :(

  • absolute gold...its hypnotic

    lol "i'm not even going to describe that, I mean it was a heat water closet, flushed by water by a system..." absolute gold!!!

  • I love your story!

    Whenever I go to youtube and see a new vlog entry from you, I get excited. You never fail to put out an interesting story. I can't wait for your next one :)

  • *nods off*

  • dont watch it then

  • well when i woke up the video was already over, i didnt really watch it...probably 1/8th of it

  • are you from leicester? your accent sounds familiar....nice stories sir, please don't stop posting your thoughts.

  • Who are we to say what a 'video' is?

    Ignore stereotypes

    You have the choise to watch, or not watch a video.

    Peter, keep em up...

  • i love ur stoty

    ^^

  • Another great moment from Peter. Thank you.

  • Wake me up when it gets to the good part.

  • This is probably way over your head. Maybe you should stick to the videos of 13 year old girls dancing to rap songs.

  • nothing to say but AWESOME!!!

  • Ah, this is a great video Peter! You have wonderful stories. Thank you.

  • Awesome again. :+)) You're stories are very fun. Love ya.

  • that final picture must be of that unexploded bomb. Very neat. I look forward to your next video.

  • Hi Peter, I wanted to tell you that your videos make a difference for the good in my life.

    I lack some self esteem, so I'm often afraid of being myself in front of others. But watching you be so true to yourself with such dignity and elegance gives me the courage to start making some steps in the right direction.

    I wish more people, no matter what their age is, would tell bits about their life in the manner you do. It is really interesting and inspiring.

    Have a nice day!

  • i luv your accent... u r my hero

  • ilike the story about the toaliat paper made out of news paper ,i was wondering if you had to wait for the news paper every day to go to the rest room,